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Home feed is a personal blog at hacktivis.me about security and programming. Since 2020, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Show HN: BadWolf, minimalist privacy-oriented WebKitGTK browser”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for the site's own projects and articles, such as the badwolf browser, pieces on Pleroma and Soapbox, and the Mozilla Foundation having no members. No comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: BadWolf, minimalist privacy-oriented WebKitGTK browser4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-09
- Update on Pleroma Maintainance4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-01-19
- Mozilla Foundation has no members2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-13
- Firmware Is Broken Terminology2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-01
What Hacker News says?
This might be unpopular, but I don't think Mozilla's behavior is inherently good[1]. And even if it has, I don't think it should be used as a litmus test for other corporate behavior. Every company should stand on its own against scrutiny. [1] "The Mozilla Foundation has no members" https://hacktivis.me/articles/mozilla-foundation-has-no-memb...
Comment linking /articles/mozilla-foundation-has-no-members
on “OpenAI to become for-profit company”Submitted Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI would advise against soapbox actually. The developer got kicked off the Pleroma project after badgering other maintainers[1] (which he admits to doing) for reverting a technical decision he forced through after it was deemed to be not very useful to the project and encouraged bad practices (the fediverse uses a protocol called WebFinger to find other users, the developer wanted to add a bunch of alternate endpoint…
Comment linking /articles/Update%20on%20Pleroma%20Maintainance
on “Mastodon.technology Shutdown”Submitted Mozilla Foundation has no members as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThere is also badwolf https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf (again based on webkit)
Comment linking /projects/badwolf
on “NetSurf, a multi-platform web browser”Submitted Update on Pleroma Maintainance as a story · 7 points
HN discussionNote: This may not matter for everybody, but Soapbox is built and maintained by far-right trolls who were ostracized from the rest of the network for their hatred of trans people and "the transgender ideology" (their words). Additionally, even within the Pleroma project (which evolved out of *chan culture and often acts as a refuge for those shunned by other parts of the fediverse), Alex has alienated all of the oth…
Comment linking /articles/Update%20on%20Pleroma%20Maintainance
on “Mastodon: A free, open-source, and decentralized Twitter not owned by anybody”Submitted Firmware Is Broken Terminology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionjust disable javascript. i use badwolf[0] for quick paywalled articles. [0] https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf
Comment linking /projects/badwolf
on “Most Texans pay more in taxes than Californians, data suggests”Submitted The <Noscript> Element as a Trap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHe's using a custom browser, apparently: https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf
Comment linking /projects/badwolf
on “Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL”Submitted Firmware Is Broken Terminology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor context and history about Soapbox: it originated from the Gab.com's frontend, and is developed by Alex Gleason, an infamous transphobe/alt-right dude. His involvement in Pleroma made many of its developers leave the project, e.g.: https://hacktivis.me/articles/Update%20on%20Pleroma%20Mainta... & he excessively whined about it: https://blog.alexgleason.me/pleroma-is-dead/
Comment linking /articles/Update%20on%20Pleroma%20Maintainance
on “Soapbox, a Web UI for the Fediverse, releases version 3.0”Submitted Show HN: BadWolf, minimalist privacy-oriented WebKitGTK browser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWas it developed at all? I'm not seeing any business logic in the repo: https://hacktivis.me/git/litepub.social/files.html
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on “I Wrote an Activitypub Server in OCaml: Lessons Learnt, Weekends Lost”
